#mattered

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#expressed #favorite #i #mattered #old

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bad #began #booming #economy #expecting

Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered. ↗

— Franco Nero

#mattered #my life #only #part #probably

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#actually #argued #came #each #ebert

It wouldn't have mattered to my mother if I married a black, was gay, lived in a commune or wore a dress. ↗

— George Weinberg

#commune #dress #gay #i #lived

The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult. ↗

— Tab Hunter

#doing #foundation #great #had #i

At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered. ↗

— Tracy Chapman

#life #like #live #love #mattered